I don’t criticize FR much but the only place I hear about that so called holiday is here. I’m black and I work in dc for a mostly black company...no one talks about it. If its not a dead idea its dying fast so lets just stop beating this dead horse.
Amen!
I knew a white liberal teacher who celebrated in their classroom.
I hadn’t thought about it much, but you are right. I don’t recall it being celebrated anywhere lately.
Then you might want to check this out. It's far from "dead" or a "FreeRepublic-only" entity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa
In 2004, BIG Research conducted a marketing survey in the United States for the National Retail Foundation, which found that 1.6% of those surveyed planned to celebrate Kwanzaa. If generalized to the US population as a whole, this would imply that around 4.7 million people planned to celebrate Kwanzaa in that year.[16] In a 2006 speech, Ron Karenga asserted that 28 million people celebrate Kwanzaa. He has always claimed it is celebrated all over the world.[1] Lee D. Baker puts the number at 12 million.[17] The African American Cultural Center claimed 30 million in 2009.[18] In 2011, Keith Mayes said that 2 million people participated in Kwanzaa.[18]According to University of Minnesota Professor Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has "leveled off" as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans. Mayes adds that white institutions now celebrate it.[7]
The holiday has also spread to Canada, and is celebrated by Black Canadians in a similar fashion as in the United States.[15] According to the Language Portal of Canada, "this fairly new tradition has [also] gained in popularity in France, Great Britain, Jamaica and Brazil", although this information has not been confirmed with authoritative sources from these countries.[19]
In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares,[20][21] having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.
In 2009, Maya Angelou narrated the documentary The Black Candle, a film about Kwanzaa.
It was being pushed a few years back quite heavily. To mention it is to lampoon the effort that the elites make try to engineer reality.
Remember that song with the lyrics, "...lying to the races...."? They tell one race what the other one is supposed to believe and vice versa. That's how they create the turmoil required to keep them in power.
I agree sir. In addition to FR, the only place I ever see kwanza mentioned is at my place of work at this time of year. It is a well respected small business defense contractor full of veterans and highly educated young engineers and training professionals. There is a display at the main office entrance that the HR office set up. I’m pretty sure they are unaware of the kwanza pedigree.
I do wish calendar publishers would stop sticking it in them.
...no one talks about it. If its not a dead idea its dying fast so lets just stop beating this dead horse.
My white, liberal, Catholic, Pro-Abortion sister in Detroit makes it a point to post “Kwanza” greetings on Facebook.